Peter Minuit

Peter Minuit isn't very well known, but I did my paper on him and here are some interesting facts :

1. He got into an argument with the secretary of the Dutch West India company, and was thrown out of New Netherland.
2. Later, someone reccomended him as a good person to start a colony somewhere else (along the Delaware river) in the New World, and he went.
3. Minuit died tragicly when a hurricane hit a boat he was on and he drowned.

From what I have read, Peter Minuit had kind of a sad life, but he was always respectful to Indians (he always bought land from them instead of just 'claiming' it) and he was important in the first few years of the colonies New Amsterdam and New Sweden because he did a good job of being in charge.